The College of Education and Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies at the University of Florida announce a 9-month tenure-eligible assistant/ associate/full professor faculty position beginning fall 2022. This position is part of the University of Florida’s preeminence initiative and involves transdisciplinary collaborations within the College of Education and among other colleges and units across the University, including the Colleges of Medicine, Law, Public Health and Health Professions, Health and Human Performance, Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Institute for Child Health Policy (ICHP), and Baby Gator Child Development and Research Center. The focus of the transdisciplinary collaboration is Optimizing the Early Childhood Development and Learning of Young Children. Under the auspices of the Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies in the College of Education, successful applicants will become an integral part of a highly talented and collaborative transdisciplinary team of faculty, post-doctoral associates, faculty affiliates, staff, and students who have realized a vision to integrate science, practice, and policy in early childhood studies to ensure equitable outcomes for young children, their families, and the practitioners who support them and who have transformed early childhood studies at the University of Florida into a priority focus area as part of the University’s rise to a top-tier public university.
The successful applicant for this position will be an established scholar in the field of early childhood studies with established records of publications and externally funded research in scholarly areas that complement and extend current initiatives occurring through the Anita Zucker Center. Applicants must be committed to improving health, developmental, and learning outcomes for all young children from before birth to age 5 using transdisciplinary approaches through equity, diversity, and inclusion lenses. Applicants must also demonstrate a commitment to achieving collective impact through partnerships with local, state, national, and international partners and stakeholders (see http://ceecs.education.ufl.edu).
Successful applicants will be expected to maintain a well-developed systematic line of research and scholarly publications, to pursue and obtain external funding,
to work collaboratively with colleagues by contributing to the vision and mission of the Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies, and to teach courses and recruit and mentor doctoral students and post-doctoral associates. Responsibilities could also include serving on college, community, statewide, and national committees or boards. Salary is negotiable, competitive, and commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Learn more—including application instructions—at the full announcement, here.